Name: The Shifting Nature of the Coronavirus
Uploaded: 2020-12-28T18:16:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Shifting Nature of the Coronavirus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Shifting Nature of the Coronavirus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-28. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
I don't know how it was in China. In Wuhan, were all the businesses doing the
same thing?
Were they building little heaters and like potted plants so you could have
outdoor dining?
Or was this a capitalistic thing?
I think the government shut them the fuck down. I mean, they were bolting
people inside their houses.
With like the evidence tape across the door.
Yeah, it's not good. I mean, the way they handled it is scary.
I don't think we should handle it the way they handled it, but even that didn't
necessarily work.
I mean, didn't they have a another surge like one of the things they were
pointing to like Japan
They were pointing to Japan as being a virus success story, right?
They think they just social distancing the weather mass went back to work and
everybody's fine. Not true
They have a huge surge there right now. The problem is this virus is weird
Yeah, and I don't think there's a real way that you can contain it. Los Angeles
contained it
In terms of like the strictness of their lockdowns bet more than anybody right
there
They were stricter than anybody they have the most cases now
They're fucked. I know you were saying that and
It seems like it affects everybody differently. Yeah
You ask a doctor a question
You know, they don't know the answer
And our isn't our human brain trying to find patterns so we can go. Okay, that's
what this sickness is
But this thing seems to be all over the place
Yeah, it doesn't have good patterns and it affects people very differently in
terms of like what it does to them
Some people it's like a sinus infection some people it really knocks them for a
loop
Yeah, some people don't recover and they die and it doesn't make it doesn't
there's no pattern that makes sense
Yeah, like the flu
We understand the flu is dangerous kills people really does but we also
understand what to do
Get a flu shot, you know boost your immune system
Here's here's some medication you can take with this. Well, like this is so new
and so scary
That no one knows what to do
I I tried to find comfort in reading about this the
Pandemic of 1918 because that the spanish flu because that was supposedly two
years and I was like
Okay, well, how did we get through that did the economy recover?
You know, I was trying to like use history as a way to predict the future
But when you read about it at least the wikipedia page of the pandemic of 1918
we never really fixed it or it
it like
Possibly
Is still around that that virus and it was I thought oh, maybe a vaccine fixed
it. No, it didn't
I don't know what the fuck happened to the spanish flu. Was it herd immunity?
I don't know. I don't probably yeah, but you know
It's estimated that that's killed like 50 million people. Yeah, uh
So I hope a hundred years later we're better at this stuff
um
Never really ended after affecting millions worldwide the 1918 flu strain
shifted and then stuck around. Oh great
Well, there's a new version that's december 11th the software update
There's a new version of covid that's in that's hit london now. Yeah, 70 more
transmittable
Yeah, fuck fun times
What we know what we don't about the uk coronavirus variant and they think
there might have been a
Similar variant or the same variant in brazil a few months ago
Crazy not good. So do we live in fear? Do we yes?
Yeah, yeah, we just shit our pants and hide yeah
Or you've you fucking take care of your immune system and you allow people to
open up businesses
Here's the thing these these people that are making these decisions for us like
the mayor of la and the governor of california
Right, which is the worst examples they they are not
Experts in the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do because what they've
done has worked terribly
it's been the worst response and
I don't think you can do something and not have a consideration for the
consequences
The negative consequences of what you're doing like telling people they can't
work and shut down their businesses when the economy
Lapses because all these things are shut down
And yet you still don't have a significant decrease in the cases
Like what you're showing is you have this one idea you're sticking with it
And you're not there's no indication that you have any respect for the negative
consequences
Not only that you don't have a plan like how are you gonna bring everybody back
up?
How are you gonna how you gonna bring back these restaurants?
What are you gonna do about these comedy clubs that are dead?
What are you gonna do about these bars that are going under what you gotta do
with these mom-and-pop shops that are never gonna be around anymore?
I don't know how it is in your life, but in my life
Numerous
Friends of mine
In what appeared to be healthy strong relationships
They're fucking toast. Yeah, like
Pandemic has divorced a lot of people. Yeah, domestic violence is up
Suicides are up
So there is a different consequence to all this now
I also find it entertaining that we elect these officials and then now they
have to be in charge of a health crisis
I would much rather we elect them off of popularity or whatever it is
And then when a health crisis strikes we have a health minister who kind of
comes in and just like drops the heat on us
The problem with these health ministers is in a situation like this
They don't even take into account the economic consequences and right
That the economic consequences are also going to bring with them suicide drug
addiction domestic violence child abuse
All those things are gonna happen and they don't take into account that they
take into account the health consequences
And here's the other thing these governors and these mayors that shut
everything down still get paid
Right, that's a that's a real problem. They are not incentivized to keep
businesses open if they were if their pay was in direct
Like if they were like the CEO of a company
Where the more money the company makes the more money they make they would be?
Incentivized to make sure these businesses stay open and these people can keep
paying taxes these fucks keep getting paid
No matter what happened, but they have a term limit
They do but yeah, but so what look yeah
By the time newsome gets out he will have destroyed that state
And also destroyed people's faith in government because people are so
frustrated with him
And then you see him at that french laundry place sitting around maskless right
next to people indoors
Oh, it was outdoor dining. Bitch, there's a chandelier above your fucking head
not stars
There's not stars above your head. There's walls. Yeah, there's yeah, I know
that's indoors
I don't want to hear your bullshit. Yeah, you are a hypocrite and this is
nonsense. You should not be getting paid
If you let your economy collapse due to these decisions that are not based on
science
Like particularly outdoor dining that's not based on science. There's no data
They can't show we have overwhelming data that you know 50 of the transmissions
are due to people eating outside, right?
That's not the case
So we are fortunate in la that you have very good weather
So keep the fucking restaurants open that can open outside help them
accommodate them
Give them some sort of a bridge to let them get through this so that on the
other side after the vaccines and after herd immunity
Or whatever happens, these people will still have businesses
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